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2025 PC −60 % 16.99 € 6.79 €

Survival horror set in 1990s Scotland where you hunt for your missing brother by diving into cursed VHS tapes, each throwing you into a different film era. Its appeal lies in video-store nostalgia and its homage to classic horror cinema.

What defines Dead Format:

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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Heartworm

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  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Pure single-player experience

A survival horror game in the spirit of the 90s that blends fixed camera angles with over-the-shoulder views. You fend off threats with a camera and solve puzzles about death in a world built from memories.

Silent Hill: Origins

Dark, serious atmosphere

A prequel to the first Silent Hill, in which trucker Travis Grady shifts between the real town and its nightmare twin, solving puzzles and scraping through clunky melee fights. Oppressive atmosphere and disturbing monsters are the main draw.

Tenebris Somnia

Distinctive, stylised art style

A survival horror game inspired by Silent Hill and Resident Evil, reimagined in a retro 8-bit 2D look. Puzzles, creature fights and live-action cutscenes with real actors create a striking contrast in style.

Anomalith

Dark, serious atmosphere

A survival third-person shooter set in Showa-era Japan, blending liminal-space atmosphere with retro aesthetics. A girl searches for her missing friend in a world warped by anomalies.

Silent Hill

Dark, serious atmosphere

As ordinary father Harry Mason, you search a fog-shrouded town for your missing daughter and slip into a nightmarish otherworld. Oppressive fog, unsettling industrial sound design and cryptic puzzles make this a defining psychological horror classic with multiple endings.

Silent Hill 3

Dark, serious atmosphere

Heather is dragged into a nightmarish otherworld where a mall, a subway and a hospital rot into rust, flesh and blood. Disturbing imagery, Akira Yamaoka's oppressive soundtrack and cryptic puzzles carry the game, while clumsy, desperate combat keeps every encounter tense.

Silent Hill: Homecoming

Dark, serious atmosphere

A grim survival horror in which a soldier returns home to Shepherd's Glen to find his missing brother. Melee combat against grotesque monsters, puzzles and an oppressive atmosphere define the experience.

White Night

Distinctive, stylised art style

A 1930s noir survival horror game where you are injured and trapped in a haunted manor, relying on matches as your only light. Its stark black-and-white art makes darkness the central threat.

Clock Tower 3

Dark, serious atmosphere

You play 14-year-old Alyssa, fleeing from immortal, grotesque killers rather than fighting them, solving puzzles in between across gloomy locations. This survival horror leans on panic, hiding and a stylishly morbid presentation.

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